Measurements and modeling of wetting efficiency in trickle-bed reactors: Liquid viscosity and bed packing effects

Industrial and Engineering Chemistry Research

Volumn 48, Issue 14, 2009, Pages 6811-6819

  Julcour Lebigue, Carine ^a   Augier, Frédéric ^b   Maffre, Harold ^a   Wilhelm, Anne Marie ^a   Delmas, Henri ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE TOULOUSE   (France)

^b IFP ENERGIES NOUVELLES   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BED POROSITY; BOUNDED FUNCTION; CATALYST PARTICLES; CHANGE OF PARTICLE-SIZE; EXTRUDATES; FIXED BED; LARGE DATABASE; LIQUID VISCOSITY; MORTON NUMBERS; NEW CORRELATIONS; PACKING EFFECTS; PARAMETRIC STUDY; PARTICLE SHAPE; POSITIVE EFFECTS; SIZE RATIO; TRICKLE BED REACTOR; WETTING LIQUIDS;

CATALYSIS; CATALYSTS; CHEMICAL REACTORS; LIQUIDS; PARTICLE SIZE; POROSITY; VISCOSITY OF LIQUIDS;

WETTING;

EID: 67849097299     PISSN: 08885885     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/ie9002443     Document Type: Article

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